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ed a degree of order and regularity capable of - awing the most intrepid enemy. This accounts for the breaches,g!acis, and elitches being covered with the dead bodies of FR.nchtnen. A curs of light troops, who Sallied most oppor tnney tram the castles, as the enemy Were retreat in the last time, ,made great slinghter among those haughty slaves of the despot, who toWards finally desisted from • their, enterprise, having received a complere.chastisernent. • • !n the Manressa Journals, received to' the 25th, ifis stated, that the enemy, had discontinued their m cannoide-of the fortress, since the vieh, and Chat ,uhsevent to that day, there had been beard only . few Shots from St: Francisco, on the 220; Ocrttaza 7.—General: Blake has transmitted to . the Supreme Junta the following.dispatch, inclosing reports from the Officers, who, under his orders, co operated in the relief of Gerona " Mosr ECELLE"NX SEIGNIOR, " .G;rona, immortal, whenther-ultimately -van.- gaislied or victorious--fatal at alltime.s to the French troop; that have besieged it---firmly perseveres ih its glorious defence. ' But it was .not~ only, in ,want, of _vovisions and ammunition. but even. of the most ,neceasary articles for the sick and wounded: It was co closely invested, that .it had no communication with the rest..of the brave principality,. excepttpy means of an occasional messenger making his, way thrOugh the enemy's shot. It therefore becante in dtspensably urgent. to alleviate this lamentable' situa tion,' by introducing a convoy capable.of remedying the scarcity; and also a body of troops. to • reinforce the brave and indet'atigable.garrison• of the 'place:- hut the of erasion was difficult and hazardous in proportion as it was important. Though .the enemy occupied a very extended line, it might easily be, c`ontra6ted ; and it was to be expeEted that he would rig .ke elvel'y effort to prevent the entrance ofsuccours so important to apkace which he had been besieg ing for three months, and which he . kept. under the most rigorous blockade. The only resource left to me was, to divert his attention to various points, and to make him suppose that my -intention . was to otter him battle in the .quarter direttly opposite to that by which the convoy was to proceed. This plan was carried into effeti with the most complete success. • . My head-quarters were in San Bari, when-I issued orders for the respeCtive movements. I or-.. detect D. Manuel Llanden, Lieutenant of the Ulto-. pia Infantry, to march to the height, of Los Angeles, s tuated fa the north of Gerona, with _a suliicient number of troops, and such of the Sotnatenei as he could culled on the road, to dislodge the enemy From that position, where - they had only a small body of infanity, in .d 'to proted the convoys of. provisions weir to be introduced in that quartet'. •The.te orders he punctually executed. I then , repaired to the hermitage ut Pa ru, two leagues distant horn San tart, witiptite troops of reserve, to be ready to pro ceed wherever assistance might be, necessary. From this point I detached the Colonel of Ultonia, D. Eunque O'Dounell, with 1200 infantry, and some eavAlry, to attack the enemy's troops that were in Brunelas, l with the design of nialiing the French Gearal 'think that the convoy was to proceed in that direction.. Notwithstanding the excellent posi tion of Brunolas, and its local strength being increas- - ed by entrenchment's,, O'Donnell' and his troops at tacked it with such gallantry that they gained the summit of the mountain, ,and planted the Spanish colours in the inttenehments. • The French kept up a formidable fire:; but 'our troops received it with the coolest intrepidity, and, without stopping to re- V.ll n it, climbed to the highest ridge. In the mean time the .enemy.received a reinforeethent, in conse iquence of an impression that this was the point which reqiiired to be more partiCularly.guarded.-7- &Donna, to preverit being turned, descended to the plain, where'he made a firm. stand, .A body of our troops, under . the command of Gen. Loygorri, after arrived at the position occupied by Q'Don rxd. Our troops could in an instant hove driven the 'enemy from his position, had it not been judged more advisable to , make Various evolutions, with the view of magnifying our numbers, and inducing the Fi LICI . I General, upon his receiVing such intortna tton, to reinforce that :point with the cpcpg" which he had on the Ter, for it Was by that road I intended - to introduce the convoy. Those 'divisibus were, Curing..,the whole evening, in front Of Brunolas, 'winch the enemy precipitately evacuated in the Ot. . .‘ Cotonel D. Francisco Robira, who was to the left of the Ter, and also Lieut.-Colonel D. Juan claros, attacked, by my orders, the enemy's troops v. ho were in front of them, and fortunately attraded their attention to that. quarter. "Itt the meanwhile 4000 .infantry, and 500' ca :•alry, under the command of General Garcia de escorted a numerous convoy, consisting of frum 1500 to 2000• mules, and, proceeding from Arne. r, ya*sed the ter, direaing their march for the fcxtreis along the right bank of that• river. They defeated the enemy who were opposed to them, torn.cl several of. their camps, and etf & eed their entKance into Gerona. The .FrenCh immediately abandoned .all their remote posts, and rcontraEted their line, to prevent the return of the mules, driv ers,' and horses ; that had got in. It then becanti..- necessary to .change our positions, and to make various movements , to proted their deParture.-- '1:11ey remained in_the place a day and two nights, and subsecluently effeaed their return with such ood fortune, that we did • not lose a single indivi dual, nor; perhaps; did so much as a single mule" o - riii . krse tall into the hands of the enemy. The Governor of Gerona. was left with a gar rison 'Of 3090 men. The momenLl receive the detailed . report of Garcia Conde, I shall transmit it to your •Excellency. •In•the mean time, I send you extratEts krotti those of O'Donnell, Robira, Claws, slid tliatiden. God, &c. (s g ped) . fr . JoAQULti BLAKI3." . •• he . adlquaricr, at ()tor, Sept. 13, •i Addressed to Don tkritur,io come'. [EXTII.VaT OF A piIIVATE LETTER.] • SEVIELK, SEPT. o.—The 'Frerkh for:ces in this coun't.y are; at present, considerably less than - half' tie nuMbei of our troops. Such dispositions pre eaopted, Mitt Madrid is expected to be tree' before of a foi(night. The army' of La, -unaer ttie eOrnmandot / Seignidr Eguia, 'is now xety repe6lable: 'There - is an army of obser vrition . and another of operation in of upwards- of 30,000 r..er).. MAILS. ARR;vip—l ci",di s 2 Waterford, Dus—i Gottenburgh, 3 Dublin: : PRICE•OI , STOCKS THtS DAT AT- TWELVE O'CLOCK, eOnSOIS I Red. -Ann. 681 THE SUN. SOLENI w.JIS DICZRZ F ALSU 14 AUDEAT ? L U N D 0 IV, FRIDXY, OCTOPER 27, 1809. At a , late hour last-night the Moniteur and the Joianal de commerce of thee 19th and 20th, reacileki town.' 'The Monitoris still silent on the subject of `Veace, but on the margin of the ,Journal du com merce; 'of 'the 20th, the following important para graph' is printed in a small charatlier : " Ce 20 Otiobre, 9 heures du math), le canon se fait 'entendre, et tout announce flue c'est la confirma tion de la nouvelle de la Pal;, signee Ie 14." This loth of 'o6tober, at nitre o'clock the morning, we hear the firing of the cannon, and every 'thing annOunces that it is a confirmation of the news of Peace, signed on the 14th." The same Paper mentions a report that the Peace was signed on the 14th inst. but it is singular ti;ei the Moniteur should not have as early intelligence upon the subjeEt as the Jounzal de Commerce. The other articles in these Papers are uninteresting, ex cept indeed the novel, piece of info i rmatit . given . to us, tLat we .lost two sail of tie line in our Expedi tion to the Schekt. Since writing the above we have received the following intelligence, from a qiiarter on which we place the most, implicit reliance, of the con- citision of a Peace between Austria and Francc..4— It was signed, we understand, on the sth instant. We are not in posse*ion of the detail of the Treaty, but we have reason to believe that the following are the principal terms : The greater part of Austrian and Polish Galicia is to be surrendered. Russia is to have a small portion of it, and France the remainder. The Bishopric of Saltzburg is to be given tcl Bavaria, and France is to receive Trieste, and Fiume and the whole of the Austrian possessions on the Shores of the Adriatic. So that in fad Austria is left without any port, or any means of communication with the sea. Allorning Paper of this day makes a:heavy com plaint againSt Government, because Mr. SYDENHAM, a particular friend of Marquis WELLESLEY, is gone to Seville, as it alleges, for the purpose of inducing that Nobleman to accept a situation at home, in con junaion with thepresent Ministers. Mr. SyDENHAm is, certainly gone, but whether for that purpOse , is more than the Writer alluded to can possibly know, and perhaps he. may be just as near the truth as he is in stating that Mr. SYDENHA4 belongs to the Customs, 'instead of the Eiceise. The same Paper complains of Mr. PERCEVALIS inconsistency in refusing to let Mr. SY.DENiIADI-aC. company Marquis WELLESLEY as one of. the Em bassy, and now permitting him to go upon the supposed mission. But is there no' difference between a per- Manent -situation . , which might occasion a long 'ab sence from the country; anda short visif, which may Merely occupy a fortnight ? Yesterday morning his MAJESTY', the Duke of CUMBERLAND, Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA, 3C c9rupsnied by Earls HARCOURT and WINCHILSEA, Lords ARDEN and ST. HELEN'S,. Lady ELY, Count MUNSTER, Generals FITZROY, CARTWRIGHT, COIS. SNEID', TAYLOR, & - .c. took their usual rides in Wind sor Park. After returning, the Duke. of CUMBER.: LAND, Earl WINCHILSEA, Gen. CARTWRIGHT, and Colonel SNELL), went into Bachelors' Acre, to see the Bachelors' .bull baited, and subscribed a \ hand:- . some sum of money to the Bachelors.' Yesterday his-Royal Highness the Duke 'of Cotst- EERLAND arrived in town trans Wiridsor: Yesterday her Ruyal Highness the Princess. of WALES gave.a grand dinner; at her apartments, in Kensington Palace. , The. Duke of YORK arrived at Windsor early on Wednesday, from a visit to his Royal Sisters, the Princesses MARY and AMELIA, at Weymouth, for the purpose of being present ats be Jubilee at Win& sot-. We have great satisfaction to ,being able to an nounce, that the Duke of •Yokx...report&d to the Royal Family, that the Princess AMELIA was in a fair way of recovery, and was expected to arrive at Windsor in a few days, •in a carriage belonging to the Prince of WALES, which has Abe convenience of a bed. Mr. ,JERDAN'S Poem " The Jubilee," was. presented to her MAJESTY at the Castle, in the morning, by the Princess ELIZABETH. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, and her Royal Highness Printess CHAR LOTTE of WA returned to:town-froth Windser. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of Yom arrived in town from Windsor, and in the - evegin‘ entertained a seleat party with an elegant dinner, 'At, his house, Stable-yard, St,Jathes's. Xesterday a Cabinet, council was held'at* the reig:o Office; there / were present Evl CAMDEN, President; Earls; of l e ivEkPeoL, BATHURST, , atId HARROWEY, Lord MULGRAVE. and 'the CHANCEL LOA of the Excitkatuk. NAVAL NEWS. FgIiTSMOUTH, OCT. 26.—Came in this day his Majesty's ship Scasette, of 38 suns from the east; 'ward. Arrived the Betsey, of Guernsey, MITCHELL, Mast. ter, from Gibraltar and Seville ; also the Lively, CLAI4, from Flpshing ; and the Union, FLuciun, from Newhaven. Sailed the Thomas 4nd John for Sunderland. Put back this morning the whole of homeward.. bound Mediterranean fleet, and other merchant ships which sailed from hence yesterday for the Downi. • PLYFOUTII, OCT. 25.—Came in, the Defiance and rigicint men of war from .a cruise. The - Two 'Brothers, lighter, laden , with wines, was driven on shore last evening on ,the Rocks of the Roe, and will, it is feared, "be lost. The Cargo is saved. Arrived, the Property, LE GROS, from Jersey. This morning, off' the Start, she discovered the French lugger privateer . so well known on this coast ; the latter, however, took no notice of her : the Providence revenue cutter, that arrived here this morning, chased her for several hours, in the night of the, 22d instant, but could not come up with her, she being such a remarkable fast sailer. 'Sailed, the Arrow schooner, in quest of thy; priva teer in the Channel..." Arrived, his Majesty's ships Valiant, and Surveil tante, from Flushing and Orestes, from Ports- mouth. DEAL, OCT. 24.—Sailed, his Majesty's ship Sal sette z with Major-General CAMPBELL on board, for the Mediterranean. Sailed, the Speculator lugger, for Flushing, with dispatches. Arrived, the Dispatch pilot sloop;of Deal, from a cruize; Harlequin armed sloop, with a convoy to the Westward:, • The whole. of the outward-bound are under DEAL, OCT. 26.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Leyden; with detachments of different regiments 9n board from - Flushing.• Sailed his 'Majesty's ship Marlborough fdr Flush . . . FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Arrived the Princess Char lotte packet, Capt. KERR, with a mail from Lisbon, in eleven days passage. FALMOUTIP, OCT. 24.-T-Arrived the Dispatch packet, 19 days from Cadiz. HAnwlcH, OCT. i6.—Sailed the Beartfoy packet for Flushing. Extraa of a Letter from. Captain St , mstcr,'of the Lascelles, to his Owners, in Liverpool, datectfa lermo, 21st August, 1809: . . " Stns—lt will now, be proper' to inform you . , that after seeing many privateers in the .Mediterra nean, we at last had one to engage, close under the Island of Galitor. .1t was on the 7th instant, about twelve o'clock at noon, we perCeived a large sail in the offing, bearing down upon us from - W.N.W. apparently an enemy, bill, we still continued our course. At two P.M. coming up with us very fast, we immediately beat to quarters, arid cleared away • decks for action. He still coming, up, with a long pendant at his main, and an' Algerine . flag on :his rnizen, we shortened sail, ready to engage : we gave him a - gun, and hoisted Ohr colours, which he irn mediately returned with a broadside ; his French colours hoisted: Then we came to a . genera[ action within pistol shot, - with our great guns and small prms... He. fought very ,hard for abotit* an fiour , and a half, with his great guns; but we suppose that by our driving thdeparom their quarters, they be took themselves tilescoall arms, which they caitti.- nued to do until the end of the aeliOn, having all their sweeps out on both sides, endeavouring to get away, as fast as po-sihle, we still continuing to keep up our fire upon them. " She was a. very large Vessel or ship, and much longer ,than the Lasceiles, shewed 16 Torts, and mounted 14 guns, and we:cannot, conceive that she carried less than 150 men. We hive the pleasure to say, that we succeeded in beating teroff entirely and, by a peculiar providence, not one spa of us lost our lives, but five of us were. most • shockingly burnt (particularly 'myself and one of the sailors) who, have suffered in a most excruciating manner, and are far from being recovered. All: that the ship could afford in point bl relief was administered to the injured; and when arrived here, Mr. Gibbs im mediately. sent a surgeon or. board to attend us all ; and now we have great hopes of our recovery. " My running rigging and sails are very much shot away ; standing rigging and the hull of the ship likewise have received many a shot. In the course of a few days I hope to be so•much better as to be able to enter into a protest on this account, which I 'ball send you in my next of course." Liverpool, Oa 21, 1,809. The foregoing letter was written by Mr. H.' Le Resche, passenger on board the Lucelles, and dic tated to him by Captain Spence, who was disabled by the a6tion he fought from writing himself, as the, following letter from Mr. Resche to the Owners of the Lascelles shews : ' " DEAR SIRS—I wrote you si few lines by a ship, at sea,'..on the 17th July, viz. La Rose Duncannun, I belonging to Messrs. Rogers and Bownas. Now have the pleasure to drop you a few lines :more from: hence : you see what an awful encounte, we `have had, and the effeds of it are such that Captain Spence cannot use his hands, therefore he has beg ged of, me to write you as abOve. It is a. great bles-, sing that we all escaped with our . lives. All the passengers were equally engaged in the action ; and, I and Mr. Cougan were employed in. working A Six •• • *. • . pounder all time ' r FREACH FAIPERg. 'PAW, Our. Ig.—" It was known yesterday that peace was signed wjth Austria, on the 14th inst. at nine in the morning. "It said that Marshal Ney is to be employed in the army of Germany, . _ "The garrison of Senegal, forming a-part of the 46th regiment of the line, arrived at Vannes on ale 12th inst, where it will remain for,some time, to-re- cover from the effeds of a long passage. It was cou veyed to France in English transports. " Vesuvius, according to the latest accounts from Naples, stilt continued to emit flames, notwithstand ing the incessant rains which had recently fallen iu that quarter. The violence of the eruption had abated; but the volcano still discharged a small stream,of burning matter, in a ,direEtion nearly op. posite td that of former eruptions of lava. PARIS, OCT. I 8.--" His Majesty the Emperor was still at Schoenbrunn on the ilth inst. The,ttd vices from Vienna of that date contain nothing cial respe6ting the conclusion of Peace, but prepara tions continued to be made for the Emperor's de- parture, The advance of the Imperial Guard was. already on its march, ‘, On Saturday, Count Montalivet, the new Mi nister Of the Interior,, took the oath of ofiice in the presence of .the Prince Arch-Chancellor, and im mediately after entered upon-the exercise of his func tions. • ‘, Marshal the Duke of Ttlgusa- is, it is reported, to take the command of a body of, troops in Spain.' «The supplementary levy ordered by the Senato Consultum of the sth inst..is carrying into effeti, simultaneously, and with the greatest aZtivity, in alt the departments. Those of the five classes therein • specified, who May • bave married previous to the publication of the Decree, are, by" the 4th article, exempted from the ballot; and by the sth article, persons having , stood the chance of the ballot for the' - preceding contingents, and for the prese n t contingent i! of 36,000, without being drawn; shall be free iron • all future cips. " We art assured that improvements, upon a very extensive scale, are.about to be executed in the Port of Antwerp, which will be enlarged so as to contain. a numerous fleet of ships of the line. It is ali,o said, that additions are to be made to the fortifications of Ostend. Solikens will be put in a state of defence, and the fine sluices in that village will be secured against the dangers of a coup de main. " English, in their Expedition to the Scheldt, have lost'several vessels of ditlerent fates. The fol lowing is ,a return of their known losses ;--1. A pinnace sunk insattempting to i nterrupt the comma?' nication between Flushing and the Isle of CAdsand. 2,t Three pinnaces sunk on the, 2d of August, by the fire of the batteries of the Isle of Watcher-6E1.- 4 3.% A corvette, copper-bottomed, -wrecked on die 3d of Sept. on the bank of Oost-Callot.- 4. Several bomb-vassal;, lost under the batteries of Fluslitug,,' ifl the attack upon that place. 5. TWO ships of ttlo line alndoned by the enemy ; one of which, a 7*, I Aka's lost„off-Zuricsee. •6. A cutter wrecked on t 4,4 20th of Se'ptemba; oft flushing Thii ,stateri - w4 • does not include - several.of:.the enemy's vessels 11314 .have been• dismasted, disabled,' or more or less (15-- Trkagett in the narrows of the - Scheldt, on the -a,:taC a:letter 6:Om Leghorn of. the 10 2. inst. prize. goods, being part . ,of ,the cargges of vessels carried into Corsica by French privateers, arc declared .admissible -into -Leghorn,- • and the other ports of the Mediterranean, mentioned the' fc:{Jfil Article of the Decree _of ...the .241 h of June, 1808 , ,with the exception - cif muslins:Cotion, cloths, stutti, hosiery, and millinery, prohibited by the Ist Art. of the said Deciee. the VIENNA, OCT. 13.—" The weather has suddenly changed.. ,Tte thermometer, which - was at 16, h3 l fallen to 4, in the day-time, and it freezes 'alrocis i every night. The. sun is seldom seki4'fidikei , e , it shone . ye,sterdly, at tie mornent,,ot the parade,. which took place a 8 usual, in the court of ttie paiace , of ocnoenhrak - i, and ttracted • a great crowd. Two neov:. pieces `have btien acted, at Abe Court 'Theatre':' the Dtriz,f,trat4 of Mozart, by the German players and tine Seri nos o)era of Zalima a the music by PortogalLQ., The, Italiati;perloratFrs situ in this' latter piece, with the same taste and ability tliat they did in the opera of Lodoiska." ,ht.is with lively feelings of •interest for the fat&A. Sovereigns, that we lay before the Public - the follow.? jng-..peculiarly affecting detail ; which, while it exhibits an „a i wful proof of' the unenvia,yeness 0 1 the eminence . tan which Kings are .placeci, .and the mutability , of ad earthly • things; ..afforcNto every British subjea abundant Cati S e. of grati tude to thai , Superintending Providence wbo, amidst this wreck :A .Royalty, has Preserved our gracious Sovereign vie coinMencerrient of the 7.1 d• year., of his _, and the both of his reign. In the • year 1788, iider-mentioned reigns were reigning; viz. Louis XVI. • France,' Deposed and publicly triwderecl.,. Charles IV. Spain, Deposed. ,• • •• Matra, Portugal, 'Expatriated. - • Joseph 11. Germaily,, Died, supposed by paison...„ Catherine, Russia, Died suddenly, and her son and successor, Paul, assassinated., Gustavus 111. Sweden, Assassinated a - maSipierade. _ • Ferdinand IV. Naples, Deprived of his dominions. Emanuel IV. Sardinia, A r lxiicatecl, ECc'esias- z Died; after being deprived of - 5 his temporalities. Sell rt•a I. O ttoman' E Inp. DepoSed and poisoned. Christian VI I. Denmark, ' Bead, incapacitated tram reign 111 g some years previous to his deueast William V. Holland, Deposed. • • Frederick 111. Prussia, A natural death. , s George 111. Os,. Britain, siill.reigns. Long live the Kino Vretn the above statement the account will stand, thus : One, murdered. One, assassinated. F ur, deposed: . One, abdicated.. One, expatriated. One, died a Lunatic., 'Two, pow)ned. One, natural death. One, sunder. (Lath. ' One, still reigning. • A SINGULAR FACT.—The buyer of one.of. the CA". pital Prizes in the late Lottery was a young won - Jan , - who, when newly born, was found in a basket by a Mr. Furnts, vvlio,todk care of the little innocent this youpg woman, tow lives servant at a Lottery' Otfice„and on Mr. F. and Mr...dniunds, a vit,-ittalle t o going .to the °dice to purchase two. Shares, the objet of Mr. ' ''urnis'SprotettiOn - was called to picl;. out 01 Shard; ud thus the Adventurers became vosseso. u. i 0: 4 . 1 ,cif,